A Healthier Earth

Helping landed estates tackle climate change with ForestFactory® 🌲 🌳 Our unique partnership with Blenheim brings together the best of British #ClimateTech and #AgTech innovation, with world-leading forestry and estate management, to tackle the climate change-related issues facing forestry and reforestation: 🌱 Seed availability 🌱 Low sapling survival rates 🌱 Poor soil conditions ForestFactory® uses a suite of technologies – micropropagation, vertical farming, and biochar amended soil – to combat these issues and increase the effectiveness, scale and speed of reforestation projects at Blenheim. These projects are vital in helping landed estates like Blenheim tackle the effects of climate change on its land and forests. Find out more using the link in comments ⬇️

Environment Journal shares the news about our innovative project ForestFactory® which has just completed its second round of trials, in partnership with Blenheim Palace Estate 🌳 Saplings grown in our first round of trials were found to sprout four times faster, and reach 50% greater stem diameter, compared to those from traditional nurseries 🌱 These results demonstrate how ForestFactory® can help solve challenges facing the forestry industry, including shortage of seeds and viable tree stock, changing climate conditions, and low seedling survival rates. Read more with link in comments ⬇️ 

With the dust now settled on COP29 and the summit mostly making headlines for the wrong reasons, we're looking ahead to COP30 and are hopeful of what could be achieved in Brazil, home to the world’s biggest rainforest, the ‘lungs of the Earth’. Read Alastair Collier’s insights on the recent controversial COP29 – and what’s at stake in Belem at COP30⬇

Earlier this month, Carbon Pulse visited our ForestFactory® partnership with Blenheim Palace Estate and took a tour around the vertical farm R&D facility, greenhouses, and planting site to see climate tech innovation at work. Read the full story here ⬇ https://lnkd.in/e3Mp8bWJ

Meet the team! 🌍🌱 Nina is a Climate Change Project Manager and has been working at A Healthier Earth for over two years, delivering complex projects with speed and precision. She currently leads work on A Healthier Earth’s ForestFactory®, based at Blenheim Estate. She has previous experience in the automotive and agri-tech industries and has worked on vertical farming projects. Nina also holds a master’s in mechanical engineering from Sheffield Hallam University. Nina believes that there is no change too small or person insignificant to impact change in our lives and our world. Nina Flashner

We’re working with the International Biochar Initiative Institute to understand how biochar is perceived in the industry so we can realise its full potential as carbon storage 🌍 Whether you’re in sustainability, at a corporation, in agriculture, government, finance, or simply interested in biochar, please take this 10-minute survey now to support the future of carbon removal.

There’s been some reasons to be hopeful with climate news this week 🌍🌱 🏭 Europe is leading the way in emissions reduction, with a significant 8.3% decrease in 2023. This is largely thanks to the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS), which has driven down emissions in key sectors like electricity, heat generation, and industrial manufacturing.    🌍 Meanwhile, at COP29, a major breakthrough has been made with the agreement on a framework for global carbon markets under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement. This will enable countries and companies to trade carbon credits, supporting emission reduction goals and the distribution of climate finance.   To meet climate targets agreed during the Paris Agreement, we need to continue reducing emissions and leverage high-quality carbon removals. Strong legislation, like the EU ETS, and the outcomes of COP29 are crucial to driving this change. 

The team is hard at work, planting 2,000 saplings from our ForestFactory® project, with Blenheim Palace Estate, which uses innovative farming technologies to increase the effectiveness, survival rate and speed of reforestation projects 🌳 https://lnkd.in/eDH-YK6y

Our revolutionary partnership project with Blenheim Palace Estate, ForestFactory®, is entering its second phase 🌱 Following the success of the initial trials, 2,000 more saplings are being planted across the estate this week. The findings from the first phase of planting speak for themselves… 🌳 The initial trial phase found saplings grown in ForestFactory® grow four times faster than nursery grown equivalents. They are also sturdier with a wider diameter at desired planting height, helping them to grow stronger 🌳 Trials also show saplings grown and planted in biochar grow taller and thicker, which indicates both of tree sturdiness and survivability https://lnkd.in/eDH-YK6y

Great to be working with you Synergie Environ Ltd on this project! Looking forward to many more in the future.